Papers, 1844-1881.

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Papers, 1844-1881.

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Letters received from family members, 1844-1880, and undated, and from business associates, 1852-1870, including Charles Coleman and Norman Stearns; letters received, and several written by Francis, regarding the Lincoln Birthday Association, including letters from Lyman K. Bass, sculptor Larkin Mead, photographer C.L. Pond and authors William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and others, 1871-1880; business, financial and other personal papers, including agreements relating to Francis' drugstore, 1854-1877; minutes, reports, addresses, notes, songs, poems, and receipts documenting Francis' efforts to memorialize Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1880; and newspaper clippings concerning Wethersfield, Conn., musical events, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Birthday Association.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

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William Cullen Bryant (b. November 3, 1794, Cummington, Massachusetts-d. June 12, 1878, New York, New York), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post....

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

Pond, C. L. (Charles L.), 1831 or 2-1891.

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Stearns, Norman.

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Francis, Julius E. (Julius Edward), 1822-1881.

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Born in Wethersfield, Conn. in 1822; moved to Buffalo in 1835. In 1839, with partner Charles Coleman, Francis started a drug business at 348 Main St. He collected artifacts and documents of the Civil War and of Abraham Lincoln which were placed in memorial cases and later donated to the Buffalo Historical Society, and led a campaign to establish February 12 as a legal holiday. To this end, he organized the Lincoln Birthday Association in 1876. From the description of Autobiographical...

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1852.

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American author and poet; of Portland, Me. From the description of Henry W. Longfellow autograph letter signed, 1875. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71129536 ...

Bass, Lyman K. (Lyman Kidder), 1836-1889.

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Lincoln Birthday Association (Buffalo, N.Y.)

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Coleman, Charles.

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Boardman, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson)

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910

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Mead, a Vermont sculptor, won the 1868 design competition for the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. From the description of Letter, January 25, 1866. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 695996415 Larkin G. Mead, a Vermont sculptor, won an 1868 design competition sponsored by the National Lincoln Monument Association and his design for the tomb became the first major Lincoln commemorative project to be completed. Justin Smith M...